NETWORK FINALS: The entire NBC line-up–SUPERSTORE, AP BIO, WILL & GRACE, the CHAMPIONS premiere, and CHICAGO FIRE–was down 0.1 in final numbers, probably due in part to local college basketball tournament preemptions. Also down 0.1: YOUNG SHELDON and SWAT.

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CABLE HIGHLIGHTS: Thursday cable was all about basketball. TNT’s NBA doubleheader was at 0.74/0.48, and ESPN aired a pair of ACC TOURNAMENT college basketball games at 0.68/0.58. A&E’s 60 DAYS IN gained 0.05 to 0.38. MSNBC’s RACHEL MADDOW SHOW topped cable news again at 0.37/0.54/2.9M, over Fox News’s HANNITY at 0.29/0.53/3M and CNN’s ERIN BURNETT OUTFRONT at 0.27/0.37/1.2M. FX’s ATLANTA fell 0.08 from last week’s season premiere to 0.36. The season finale of Bravo’s TOP CHEF rose 0.07 to 0.33. Nickelodeon’s noon PAW PATROL hit the #11 slot at 0.32. VH1’s RUPAUL’S DRAG RACE crashed by 0.18 to 0.31. On History, SWAMP PEOPLE ticked up to 0.31, and TRUCK NIGHT IN AMERICA arrived at 0.24. Food Network’s BEAT BOBBY FLAY ticked up to 0.29. On HGTV, FLIP OR FLOP was steady at 0.27, HOUSE HUNTERS shed 0.03 to 0.24, and HOUSE HUNTERS INTL was down 0.09 to 0.23. Tru’s IMPRACTICAL JOKERS dropped 0.11 to 0.25. On ID, PANDORA’S BOX held at 0.24. MTV’s WILD N OUT lost 0.04 to 0.22. USA’s AMERICAN NINJA WARRIOR: NINJA VS NINJA ticked up to 0.22. Lifetime’s PROJECT RUNWAY dipped 0.02 to 0.22. Paramount’s LIP SYNC BATTLE ticked up to 0.21. We’s GROWING UP HIP-HOP was down 0.02 to 0.19. POP’s IMPACT WRESTLING dropped 0.03 to 0.07. Freeform’s BEYOND fell 0.04 to 0.05. CMT’s MUSIC CITY lost 0.03 to 0.05. IFC’s PORTLANDIA was steady at 0.03/108K.

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MITCH METCALF has been tracking every US film release of over 500 screens (over 2300 movies and counting) since the storied weekend of May 20, 1994, when Maverick and Beverly Hills Cop 3 inspired countless aficionados to devote their lives to the art of cinema. Prior to that, he studied Politics and Economics at Princeton in order to prepare for his dream of working in television. He has been Head of West Coast Research at ABC, then moved to NBC in 2000 and became Head of Scheduling for 11 years.

Wow so many shows adjusted down in the finals. That’s preemptions and rounding for you. Credit to Chicago Fire for growing so much out of a massive flop like Champions. It just shows what a hit series this one is, it’s also doing better than The Blacklist in that slot.

Yep, unfortunately. I think the cast saw the writing on the wall before the show even premiered(Christian Kane said as much on Twitter). I really thought common sense would win out on that one over at TNT but sadly not. It deserved at least a final season with the current numbers.

Sort of a case of, paraphrasing, “if it ain’t broke, why throw it out?” I was not a big fan of the show, but it’s a stupid mentality to want to do something like this to be “edgy”, whatever that really means. I think there are a lot of people wishing for more fun programs – even family friendly – and networks are basically ignoring them on this. And what’s wrong with having The Librarians with edgier programs for diversity? One could even help the other.